Company Fact Sheet

Delivering World-Class Identity Theft & Background Screening Solutions

Merchants Information Solutions, Inc. is dedicated to delivering world-class identity theft and background screening solutions.

For almost a century, the Phoenix, Arizona-based company has been a leading provider of employment and resident background screening services, behavioral assessments, and identity theft prevention and recovery solutions.

Corporate History

• Incorporated in Phoenix, Arizona as Merchant's and Manufacturer's Exchange on February 15, 1912 - the day after Arizona became a state. The company originally functioned as a board of trade and better business bureau.
• Offered consumer credit-reporting services in the early 1920s.
• Became a non-stock, member-owned corporation in 1928.
• Unofficially changed its name to The Credit Bureau of Phoenix in 1946. The change became official in 1958.
• Began acquiring and automating other Arizona credit-reporting agencies in 1971.
• Changed name to Credit Data of Arizona in 1973. Over the next decade, the company opened new offices and automated credit-reporting agencies in Tucson, Albuquerque, and El Paso.
• Changed name to Credit Data Southwest in 1985.
• Changed name to Merchants Information Solutions, Inc. in 1999.
• Acquired Personnel Profiles Employment Screening to form background screening services powerhouse in 2006.
• Acquired American Tescor, LLC adding behavioral assessments to screening tools in 2006.
• Continues to expand by purchase of Scottsdale-based ID Advocates in early 2007.

For more information call us at 800-966-0576.

For additional information about our subsidiaries, please visit us on the web at personnelprofiles.com, americantescor.com or idadvocates.com.